The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best AuthorsM. W.. Dodd, 1853 - 432 pagini |
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Pagina 44
... habit of complaining ; and make their friends uneasy , and strangers merry , by murmur- ing at evils that do not exist , and repining at grievances which they do not really feel . Graves . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance pleases all ...
... habit of complaining ; and make their friends uneasy , and strangers merry , by murmur- ing at evils that do not exist , and repining at grievances which they do not really feel . Graves . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance pleases all ...
Pagina 47
... declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . — Blount . CONTEMPT . - Contempt is commonly taken by the young for an evidence of understanding ; but no habit of THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 47.
... declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . — Blount . CONTEMPT . - Contempt is commonly taken by the young for an evidence of understanding ; but no habit of THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 47.
Pagina 48
... habit of mind can afford this evidence , which is neither difficult to acquire , nor meritorious when acquired ; and as it is certainly very easy to be contemptuous , so it is very useless if not pernicious . To discover the ...
... habit of mind can afford this evidence , which is neither difficult to acquire , nor meritorious when acquired ; and as it is certainly very easy to be contemptuous , so it is very useless if not pernicious . To discover the ...
Pagina 72
... habit and superficial order of garments ( in man or woman ) give us a taste of the spirit , and demonstratively point ( as it were a manual note from the margin ) all the internal quality of the soul ; and there cannot be a more evident ...
... habit and superficial order of garments ( in man or woman ) give us a taste of the spirit , and demonstratively point ( as it were a manual note from the margin ) all the internal quality of the soul ; and there cannot be a more evident ...
Pagina 81
... habit with us : viz . avarice , ambition , envy , anger , and pride . If those enemies were to be banished , we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace . - Petrarch . ENEMIES WITHIN . - Our worst enemies are those we 4 * THE WORLD'S ...
... habit with us : viz . avarice , ambition , envy , anger , and pride . If those enemies were to be banished , we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace . - Petrarch . ENEMIES WITHIN . - Our worst enemies are those we 4 * THE WORLD'S ...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors Tryon Edwards Vizualizare completă - 1853 |
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Pagina 237 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 402 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Pagina 190 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Pagina 297 - I will give it to you in short: for ' a word to the wise is enough,' as poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him G 2. to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows :— " Friends," says he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy ; and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...
Pagina 402 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Pagina 140 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honor; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate, nor the Office, will enable us to pay our Taxes.— If we are industrious we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working Man's House Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Pagina 314 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Pagina 138 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Pagina 29 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Pagina 58 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.